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10 Best Things to Do in Leeds
What is Leeds Most Famous For?
Leeds is a modern, cosmopolitan city in a beautiful historical setting. As with many of the big cities of Yorkshire, it has a glorious past, with many striking Victorian-era buildings around the city centre. Unlike many, it has retained its glory into the 21st century, becoming a major hub of music and culture.
The city's skyline may not be as iconic, but Leeds has shopping areas to rival London's, a dining scene which gives Birmingham a run for its money, and nightlife as famous as Manchester's. It's an incredibly diverse place, with budget markets walking distance from luxury malls, curry houses next door to English pubs and skyscrapers surrounded by historical streets.
What are the best things to do in Leeds?
Start your day at Millennium Square
Sip your coffee in the cultural heart of the city
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Millennium Square is something of a social hub in the centre of Leeds. It is surrounded by major landmarks, including the Town Hall, Leeds City Museum and Leeds Civic Hall, as well as a number of theatres and galleries.
The square itself regularly hosts special events and attractions, including a Christmas Market, concerts, an outdoor ice rink and the screening of major sporting events. There's a diverse selection of cafés, pubs and restaurants nearby, making this a pleasant place for your morning coffee. Or you can choose to have your coffee from the comfort of your own hotel room by choosing accommodation situated near Millennium Square.
Location: Calverley Street, Leeds LS1 1UR, UK
Watch the jousting at the Royal Armouries Museum
See countless swords in the Hall of Steel
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The Royal Armouries Museum is home to a lot of military hardware. The collection dates as far back to medieval swords and suits of armour up to current generation firearms, including artefacts from around the world. Conveniently close to the city centre, right by the River Aire, the museum is free to enter.
Perhaps the most famous attraction of the museum is the arena, where you can see live-action re-enactments of famous battles, duels and jousts. These special events take place throughout the year, usually on weekends.
Location: Armouries Drive, Leeds LS10 1LT, UK
Open: Daily from 10 am to 5 pm
Phone: +44 (0)113 220 1999
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Party at a music festival
Rock out at some of Britain's best events
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You can't talk about Leeds without mentioning the music festivals. Admittedly, they're not usually the kind of thing you can do in a day, but they are certainly not to be missed. The Leeds Festival, in particular, is one of the UK's biggest, attracting big-name bands to Bramham Park during the August bank holiday.
There are dozens of festivals around the city throughout the year, though mostly between June and September. Live at Leeds and Slam Dunk Festival are both conveniently right in the city centre while Otley Folk Festival and Let's Rock Leeds! are a little further afield. All sorts of musical genres are represented, from classical to '80s to modern rock and pop.
If you're only visiting for the weekend, and specifically to attend an event, it may be of interest to browse the budget-friendly accommodation available in Leeds.
Go bargain hunting in Kirkgate Market
Grab a tasty lunch in the beautiful Edwardian market building
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The Kirkgate Market has been housed in a charming historical building in Leeds City Centre since 1857. It now spills out across the square behind it so that it spans a huge total area. Conveniently right next to the bus station and a short walk from the train station, it's an especially good place to find a lunchtime snack.
The market contains around 200 stalls, with fashion, jewellery, hardware and haberdashery vendors alongside the fresh local produce and snack bars. It's as diverse as the city itself, with a Chinese supermarket alongside curry and kebab stalls and old English butchers.
Location: Vicar Lane, Leeds LS2 7HY, UK
Open: Monday - Saturday from 8 am to 5.30 pm (closed on Sundays)
Phone: +44 (0)113 378 1950
Get the Emmerdale Studio Experience
Pull a pint at the Woolpack
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The Emmerdale Studio Experience is simply the former set of the popular ITV soap opera, now open to public tours. You can take an 80-minute guided tour of the fictional Yorkshire village and the indoor sets, including the iconic Woolpack pub. The tour also includes the opportunity to learn some of the skills behind making the TV series.
For the really hardcore Emmerdale fans, the outdoor set is also open to visitors. It's on the Harewood Estate, about 3 miles north of the Studio Experience.
Location: 27 Burley Road, Leeds LS3 1JT, UK
Open: Sunday - Friday from 10 am to 6 pm, Saturdays from 9.30 am to 6 pm
Phone: +44 (0)1904 261262
Must-See: Victoria Quarter
See why Leeds is called "the Knightsbridge of the North"
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The historical grandeur of Leeds is nowhere better demonstrated than in its grand shopping arcades. There are several around the city, but the best is Victoria Quarter. A palace of luxury shopping, it's home to big-name outlets like Harvey Nichols, Vivienne Westwood and Louis Vuitton.
Even if you're only window-shopping, Victoria Quarter is worth a visit. Its dramatic wrought-iron and marble structure is home to some first-rate restaurants and cafés. To complete the cosmopolitan atmosphere, the Victoria Gate Casino is just a short walk away.
Location: 10 Queen Victoria St, Leeds LS1 6BE, UK
Open: Monday - Saturday from 8 am to 11 pm, Sunday from 10 am to 10.30 pm
Phone: +44 (0)113 245 5333
Buy something different in the Corn Exchange
Check out alternative fashions in a traditional setting
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Leeds Corn Exchange is another beautiful example of Victorian-era construction and was almost certainly one of the most ostentatious farmers' markets of its time. It is one of very few exchanges in the UK which is still primarily a place for shopping, but the goods on sale now include fashion, homeware and musical instruments.
The Corn Exchange is renowned as an 'alternative' place, featuring mostly independent stores and very few big brands. Keep an eye out, in particular, for Humpit. It's a dedicated hummus restaurant and is widely regarded as one of the top places to eat in all of Leeds.
Location: Call Lane, Leeds LS1 7BR, UK
Open: Monday - Saturday from 10 am to 6 pm, Thursday from 10 am to 9 pm, Sunday from 10.30 am to 4.30 pm
Phone: +44 (0)113 234 0363
Dine in Leeds City Centre
Try a curry to rival Birmingham's best
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Leeds has an astonishingly diverse dining scene, with many first-class independent restaurants to choose from throughout the city centre. It's virtually impossible to pick out an individual street or area which stands out more than any others because you can find great restaurants on every corner.
The choice of South Asian restaurants is especially noteworthy, rivalling Birmingham's famous curry scene. Look out for Hansa's on North Street, Tharavadu on Mill Hill or Bengal Brasserie on Merrion Way. You'll also find great Thai, Japanese, Italian and, of course, British restaurants around the city.
To have everything at your doorstep, consider booking a hotel located in the city centre.
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Hunt for ghosts at Thackray Medical Museum
Learn about the history of medicine
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The Thackray Medical Museum on Beckett Street is a fascinating place, telling the often gruesome story of the development of medical technology around the world. The building was once a workhouse and then became part of the neighbouring hospital, so it's fair to say that there are probably quite a few ghosts around. In fact, it's said to be one of the most haunted buildings in Leeds.
As if the dioramas and exhibits weren't scary enough during the day, the museum regularly opens its doors in the evenings for ghost nights. If you're lucky (or not, as the case may be), you might see the mysterious woman in 18th-century clothes waving or hear ghostly knocks and bangs.
Location: Beckett Street, Leeds LS9 7LN, UK
Open: Daily from 10 am to 5 pm
Phone: +44 (0)113 244 4343
End the day in Call Lane
Go bar-hopping and clubbing in the centre of Leeds
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Call Lane has developed a reputation very much like that of Manchester's Canal Street – basically of being the best place for a wild party. Particularly LGBT-friendly, the street is practically lined with bars and clubs and is pedestrianised at weekends, making it ideal for bar-hopping. The music selection is varied and eclectic, so just keep hoping until you find the place that suits you.
Popular names along Call Lane include Jake's, Wire and Call Lane Social. Oporto is especially famous for its live music while Neon Cactus is renowned for its choice of tequilas and potent cocktails.
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Everybody complains that capital is drying up, but most businesses are started on a shoestring anyway. These 13 companies demonstrate how
Long ago some aboriginal entrepreneur launched the world's first profit-making concern. There was no cash in those unenlightened times. Therefore, he or she did for business what the Big Bang did for the universe: got it going from nothing. Since then any number of corporations have lifted themselves by their bootstraps out of the same primordial ooze. The once-impoverished founders of Kelly Services, Hallmark Cards, Oscar Mayer Foods, and many other enduring household names tell stimulating start-from-scratch stories. [See quiz, "Guess Who?" below.]
Inc. magazine has been rubbing elbows with ingenious self-starters from its very beginning, too. Our premier issue (April 1979) carried an article about a garage-born computer company tentatively nursed to life by a couple of guys in their twenties who whimsically named it Apple. Then again, in our corridors severely undercapitalized but now successful founders have been rubbing elbows with another bootstrapper: Inc. descends from no-money-down origins, its 24-year-old corporate roots traceable to a humble pamphlet on sailing.
Nowadays, it seems, a new business is apt to be a Compaq or MIPS kind of thing, hitting the ground fully capitalized, fully researched and developed, fully located, fully staffed, and fully positioned to rake in a few hundred million dollars within the first three years. A tendency away from garages and into vestibules became evident a decade ago, when, thanks to the generous backing of venture capital, Lotus Development Corp. was able to spend $3 million promoting its first product. That formidable sum was assumed to have made it impossible for new software companies to even think of beginning with anything less.
For reasons about to be generally explored, however, it wasn't assumed formidable by one Philippe Kahn. Just off the boat from Europe, Kahn was unschooled in how investment flows in the world's leading economy. He didn't realize it's not supposed to flow to naïfs like him.
And it didn't. Barely a year later the penniless Kahn decided to go it on his own without even a corporate identity. (In a winning bootstrapping move, the one he eventually concocted was designed "to sound like an important company.") Kahn was so simplistic as to believe that despite a total lack of capital and the concomitant inability to borrow any, he nonetheless could take on well-heeled competitors like Lotus and make himself a bundle.
For a start he gathered a troupe of clued-in helpers, set up a battery of fake telephones, and to impress visiting potential vendors, pretended to be a briskly thriving business. You'd dismiss the stunt as totally ridiculous, if it weren't for the fact that, hard on the heels of its well-financed rival, Borland International Inc. is valued at $680 million, a mere eight years later.
What's impressive in terms of the above references is not only that any of us could have pulled off the same feat but that many of us still are. The ranks of shoestringing hopefuls who passed through Inc.'s corridors in the 1980s remain undiminished in the 1990s. And like their famous predecessors, the business breeders profiled in these pages -- a gamut that runs from manufacturers of goods as low-tech as stuffed beavers to services as specialized as psychological testing -- began with pocket change. In some cases not even that, and in no case with more than $999.99. Each undercapitalized start-up chosen is now at least six years old. As the founders attest, the financial system that was accessible to earlier bootstrappers such as confectioner William Wrigley Jr. in 1891, carmaker Henry Ford in 1903, Reader's Digest publishers DeWitt and Lila Wallace in 1922, and high-technologist An Wang in 1951 remains equally accessible today.
The Elements Of Bootstrapping
When you catch onto the rules of bootstrapping, access routes to other people's money abound, though not necessarily for the coin of the realm. The capital of credibility -- other people's willingness to hear you out, to grant credit extensions, and to barter (or merely to lend an empty after-hours desk) -- does a bootstrapper as nicely as cash. To attract such implicit investment, bootstrappers have to exude confidence both in themselves and in their products. "A rush of adrenaline that still hasn't gone away" is how DaMert Co.'s Fred DaMert describes that attribute.
Self-belief -- some call it chutzpah -- inspired ProForma Inc. founder Gregory P. Muzzillo and partner one day simply to "declare ourselves in business." To break the news to the rest of the world, they printed official-looking letterhead. Cost so far: $49.95. For another $25, letters were sent to 100 prospective suppliers, from whom they solicited both understanding and 30 days' credit. Enough said OK to launch the duo into their next stage.
Wearing one's heart on one's fiscal sleeve is also an effective bootstrapping ploy. Marc H. Ostrofsky of Information Publishing Corp. recognized early that "a lot of times when you need something, if you explain to people why -- tell them a critical supplier has to be paid by noon tomorrow, for instance -- they'll cooperate."
Plant Technical Services Inc. founder Amin Bishara asked for -- and got -- $125,000 in loans from prospective employees to fund their own pay for a while after he founded a business to hire them. They were offered two points over then-current money-market rates, which no doubt was enticing but which actually equaled prime -- the rate banks charge their most solid customers.
No bootstrapper can go far with an inferior product. Beaver Valley Inc.'s Kaylee Nilan knew her new business was on the right track when established competitors began ripping open her stuffed animals to reverse-engineer their solid construction.
All bona fide bootstrappers indulge in a little pretense now and again merely to stay alive. Nothing that would send up a chief executive for fraud, mind you, but maybe using a telephone for a while at residential rather than commercial rates. Ditto floor space. Marc Sirkin of Secret Identitee Merchandising ran his business out of an apartment, which cost less than renting industrial-park footage. (It helps if the neighbors are away all day working in said industrial park.) Economically distressed cities like Houston are spawning grounds for cashless businesses, whose hard-up CEOs can dictate surprisingly favor able real-estate terms to even harder-up landlords.
Behind the success of any enterprise lies positive cash flow. And because of the vagaries of living on the edge, that's all the more so in bootstrapping. Practitioners have devised various rules to defend against sudden negative turns: One, deal only with vendors who offer credit terms, but don't tell them that's why. Another, when goods are ready to be delivered, deliver them yourself and collect on the spot. The secret is not to get involved in goods or services that take overly long to execute. This is how bootstrapping cash flow ideally is executed: buy material from a vendor on 45 days' credit, turn it into goods that morning, and send them out COD that afternoon. A dedicated producer could cycle cash 45 times over before the inventory bill came due.
Almost by definition, a bootstrapper must avoid industries that call for lots of equipment. A truck or two, maybe, because vehicles sometimes can be financed through an auto loan from the same bank that refuses a business loan. Often the shading is subtle but significant. The advantage of men's clothes, for instance, is that styles rarely change. What a savings in capital expenditures for Nicholas Graham, founder of Joe Boxer Corp., whose machines have been stamping out the same underpants pattern for five straight years.
More discreetly than their sufficiently capitalized brethren, bootstrappers use the system to beat the system. One such aim is to delay by any legal means a check's getting deposited into the recipient's bank. Certain check-writing strategies gain as many as 10 business days -- a significant boost to cash flow.
For all their garrulousness, bootstrappers tend to be an individualistic, solitary lot. Else why, when faced with the prospect of friends wanting to invest in his enterprise, did Physicians Weight Loss Centers' Charles Sekeres spurn them entirely? Beaver Valley founder Nilan took in $10,000 from an acquaintance, held it unused for a while, then returned it when the donor became impatient. A third, Richard A. Kenney of Kenney Communications Inc., reports at first feeling crushed, then ebullient, when a start-up partner quit and withdrew $2,000 in working capital.
"What I like about all this," sums up Fred DaMert, "is it's attainable. We're not talking space shuttles. I happen to have had a great product, but anyone could have thought of it."
Joe Boxer Corp.
San Francisco. Nature of start-up: manufacturing neckties. Founded: 1983. Estimated 1991 revenues: $22 million. Employees: 46.
"I'd go in and make the sale, then rush back and sew the goods. A day later there they'd be, delivered! Customers got the impression that I had dozens of employees, that phones were ringing off their hooks in New York and Chia go and L.A."
-- Nicholas Graham
As a performing musician, Nicholas Graham had ample opportunity to observe peculiar sartorial trends. For his taste, not peculiar enough. So at age 24 he toured some local fabric stores, buying up patterns he considered "more interesting." On a sheet of plywood set atop his bed, he cut and sewed the swatches into ties. The finished goods were sold to specialty shops, cash-only. "I took in $100 and made $100 off it," he liberally gauges, "because overhead was nonexistent."
The neckties-out-greenbacks-in cycle kept up for two years. One day a buyer at Macy's suggested that if the fabrics Graham was using for neckwear were made into underwear, he would generate more money. There went the necktie business, folded, as it were, into Joe Boxer. "The name popped into my head," he claims, "and took over everything." Including major department stores in the United States and factories in the People's Republic of China, where today the corporation has silk prepared to order.
In his first year as Joe Boxer, Graham took in $600,000, "hired some labor," retired the plywood, and subcontracted the sewing. Soon he signed onto a factoring arrangement by which the company would be paid 80% of an invoice on the day an order was shipped and the bank would own the receivable -- a typical arrangement in clothing and furniture manufacturing. "You get cash quicker, which fosters faster growth," Graham explains of the sometimes-suspect financing mode. It certainly does: six months into Joe Boxer's second year, sales had already topped $1 million.
ProForma Inc.
Cleveland. Nature of start-up: brokering printed business forms. Founded: 1978. Estimated 1991 revenues: $30 million. Employees: 65.
"When I was young and worked for someone else, I always ended up getting fired. I had one dependable job; it was with my father, the manager of a large company. He told me, 'Greg, I'd fire you, too, except you're my son.' " -- Gregory P. Muzzillo
It took a mere six months at a (then) Big Eight firm for Gregory Muzzillo, just out of college at age 23 and trained as an accountant, to decide he "was not keen on a career path that demanded such a drawn-out process to make partner." His roommate wasn't fond of the job he had as a salesman, either. So Muzzillo pointed out, "You're a marketer, and I'm a bean counter -- the perfect combination for starting a business!"
And what handier business than brokering forms, standing between a customer's needs and a printer's ability? "Every business uses forms," Muzzillo reasoned. "You don't have to go far to find millions of dollars' worth of orders." The founders' initial capital, such as it was, went mostly into a telephone-answering machine. With that, relates Muzzillo, "we merely declared ourselves in business." The next step was to design letterhead and use it to apply for credit from printers, typesetters, paper suppliers, and such. "To get started selling the products we wanted to sell, we had to get an open line with about 25 plants," Muzzillo says. "We wrote each one that we'd just graduated from college and were bright fellows. That took gumption, but the vendors seemed impressed with our earnestness."
For Muzzillo, the leap was traumatic. "It was discouraging to go from the beautiful interior of a CPA firm -- and knowing what my billing rate was, even though I wasn't getting it -- to schlepping the street, carrying a sample case eight hours a day, begging for orders." The darkest hours came after he hadn't written an order all day, and the last customer asked, "How many forms companies are out there, anyway? You're the third one to call on us this afternoon alone!" Laments Muzzillo: "People kept asking me was I out of my mind -- walking away from a promising accounting position? At such times I thought maybe I was."
Another difference between an accountant and a forms broker, Muzzillo discovered, was that where the former sends a statement, the bootstrapper sends Ilio. Ilio was born of whole cloth one day, says Muzzillo, when "someone didn't want to pay us and we desperately needed that money. So I put on this tough Italian accent and said, 'Hello, this is Ilio. I'm a friend of Greg Muzzillo, and he's told me you don't pay your bill, and he's asked me to collect. . . . ' " Ilio collected.
Information Publishing Corp.
Houston. Nature of start-up: publishing trade newsletter. Founded: 1985. Estimated 1991 revenues: $4 million. Employees: 30.
"My wife had to keep the books, but she didn't know how. 'Keep them like your checkbook,' I told her. For the first few years we worked and traveled together nonstop. Our plan was to get financially stable in four years, then start a family. The fourth year, we started to kill each other instead."
-- Marc H. Ostrofsky
Through selling real estate in college, Marc Ostrofsky maintains, he "learned how people pay for things." So well, in fact, that in 1983 he was featured in a Newsweek article on campus entrepreneurs. His real-estate career was derailed by a nondescript sidewalk huckster hawking telephone charge cards. "Do you get paid to do this?" Ostrofsky asked. "Yeah -- five dollars for every one I give away." "That," marveled Ostrofsky, "is the best business I ever heard of!" So he plunged into it. Before long he was publishing a newsletter about the deregulated pay-phone business. Seven years and two magazines later, his company was raking in $3.7 million.
But not before he made his peace with his subject matter. "That's what got me into my first trouble -- telephones," recalls Ostrofsky of his shoestring days, when it was vital to evoke the image of a thriving enterprise though only a tentative one existed. "I had a home phone, but I always answered it with the name of my company. That's what you have to do -- play different roles." One day Southwestern Bell was the caller. "They said, 'So this is a business? Sorry, but we have to change your rate from $13 a month to $76.' 'Why?' I demanded -- 'It's the same damn line!' "
The publication's largest source of revenue was advertisers, whom Ostrofsky billed as if they were tenants from his real-estate days -- first and last months down on the space. Essentially, the customers funded the business. "I'd never sold ads before," he explains of the enviable arrangement, "and the market was so new to clients that they'd never advertised before. It seemed OK to both of us."
Initial labor costs were reduced by volunteer help. In the beginning the family would sit around licking stamps. As cash started to flow, Ostrofsky paid his mother for her part-time work. But when the benighted woman asked for a full-time position, Ostrofsky let her go. "At first you're emotional and sentimental; that's the nature of starting a business," her son reflects. "The flip side is, eventually you realize that to run an efficient organization you have to do things unemotionally."
DaMert Co.
San Leandro, Calif. Nature of start-up: manufacturing novelty item. Founded: 1973. Estimated 1991 revenues: $4.5 million. Employees: 15.
"At this point, it feels like a regular job. Many times before, when it would eat me alive at night, I wished I'd had a regular job." -- Fred DaMert
Driving a truck part-time kept 27-year-old Fred DaMert going, since the GI Bill's $200 or so per month didn't stretch very far, even in state college. By the same frugal token, DaMert stinted on gifts for family and friends, preferring to handcraft his handouts. For the holidays of 1973, lucky recipients were to be given a polymer prism that scattered a spectrum of color in the sun.
But when tinkerer DaMert pulled his first sample from the mold, it hadn't quite cured. The thing wilted into an arc. Eureka! Far from a disaster, with its inadvertently rounded surfaces, it cast wonderful rainbows on the wall. "I knew instantly I was onto something," he recollects.
The humanities major shifted to chemistry and optics, trying to determine how to pop prisms from molds in cheap abundance. In the back of an Oakland warehouse (which he also called home), he came up with a predictable method and brought the results to the nearby Nature Co., now a national retail chain specializing in scientific diversions. Its buyer cautiously committed to two dozen. The delighted DaMert packed up his Volkswagen with more and "went on a great selling adventure through California." A year later he crisscrossed the country by plane, seeking out museum gift shops because "they were easy to find, were friendly, and you never had to worry about their credit." By then, at $16 retail, DaMert's curved prism had become The Nature Co.'s best-selling item.
Softworks Development Corp.
Mequon, Wis. Nature of start-up: publishing computer software. Founded: 1983. Estimated 1991 revenues: $16 million. Employees: 34
"When you sit around your office and realize things aren't right, you feel like you're the only person in the world suffering those things." -- Dan Armbrust
Well-written software can change a 19¢ floppy disk into a $199 floppy disk. Unfortunately for a cash-poor start-up, however, to a loan officer the latter looks identical to the former. "Banks don't understand the concept of intellectual property," Softworks Development cofounder Armbrust concluded in 1983. Therefore, the then-21-year-old college dropout decided to capitalize his ambitions solely on their merits -- plus a few hundred dollars of his own.
Armbrust put the cash into a Commodore computer, two disk drives, and a packet of blank diskettes. In the corner of a bedroom, he transferred the program he had written onto each blank diskette and shrink-wrapped it in a household Seal-a-Meal. To get the first rank of distributors back in 1983, Armbrust "sat on the phone" and made cold call after cold call. Following up on the possibles, he'd bring in his program and plug it into the customer's computer. Impressed by either Armbrust's program or his cheek, some bought 5, some 10; all paid COD. "I'd hop in my car and drive the filled order back down and pick up the money," he recalls. For all the distributor was told, Armbrust was merely the rep for that territory.
One technique for keeping the wolf from the door, Armbrust learned from his part-time job at United Parcel Service, was to buy from out-of-state vendors and have the goods shipped COD via UPS. The cashless and creditless buyer pays by check, which the UPS driver relays to the supplier by ordinary mail. It can take as many as five days for the supplier to get paid; clearing the check through the banking system can take another four. Deftly maneuvered, that positive cash position can be parlayed into inventory turnover or easy interest many times over. "Whenever you can get a few days on a few grand," Armbrust instructs, "seize the opportunity."
Beaver Valley Inc.
Etna, Calif. Nature of start-up: manufacturing stuffed animals. Founded: 1983. Estimated 1991 revenues: $500,000. Employees: 18.
"We didn't take money from the business until we actually had to, until the power was ready to be shut off or something absolute like that. For all the hours I put in in the beginning, I could have been earning more at McDonald's." -- Kaylee Nilan
When Ian got a rabbit, the toy industry got Beaver Valley. His mom promised to sew the best stuffed animal ever there was for Ian's fourth birthday, and if today's retail price is any indication, she did: an individual piece from Kaylee Nilan's line of collectible bears, bunnies, and beavers can cost nearly $2,000. The plush family was begotten when local artisans admired Ian's fanciful creature so much they insisted on bringing it to San Francisco to an arts-and-crafts trade show. A toy distributor saw it and ordered more of the same, contracting to pay in full within 10 days of receipt.
Output was a slender 20 to 30 units a month, but at about $300 each, it was enough to make ends meet. When Nilan had a falling-out with her rep, the fast-pay arrangement was seen to have a near-fatal flaw: "the problem was that at the end of the relationship, we didn't have a customer base, so it was like starting from scratch again."
Joined by her husband, Jeff Trager, who left a job as a wilderness ranger to handle accounts, Nilan learned the hard way about the hazards of selling direct. "A toy-store owner in Petaluma tried to con us into giving credit right off the bat. He could sense we were hard up for new accounts. We said, 'Sorry, the rule is that the first order goes COD.' " On the second order, however, the buyer was given 30 days. The next week the COD check bounced and the buyer disappeared with the goods.
At that point any contribution would have been appreciated. One came in the form of a request from an acquaintance to invest $10,000. The money was gratefully, if temporarily, accepted.
"We sold what we thought was a portion of the business. We didn't have a value," relates Trager, "so we called it 'five shares of stock for some future worth at $2,000 a share.' We weren't even incorporated then. None of us knew how many shares there were supposed to be, all told." The trusting stockholder waited for Beaver Valley to declare a dividend, then gave up and asked for her money back. The company bought the shares at the same $2,000 per, plus annualized interest. "In the early days you don't know what you're doing," Trager admits. "If someone offers you money, you take it."
Team Building Systems Inc.
Houston. Nature of start-up: preemployment testing for honesty. Founded: 1984. Estimated 1991 revenues: $2.8 million. Employees: 17.
"After putting in an 18-hour day, when you go home you don't want to have a conversation, you want to get your head clear so you can get back to work the next day." -- Carl E. King
As director of marketing for an established security company in Houston, Carl King didn't have a worry in the world -- until he got laid off, in June 1984. The abrupt dismissal came as he was in the middle of negotiating for the rights to a psychological-profile test. No problem: King simply continued the negotiations on behalf of himself. Soon four others who had been laid off joined him, each kicking in $200.
If King isn't first to admit that when you start a business on naught you'd better have luck, he ought to be. His good fortune came via a rental agreement for office space. The footage was in a building with only seven tenants, which the lessor obviously wanted to fill and show on the books as occupied. He offered King the first two years free if King would pay for the first and last months' rent and sign up for three years at the full rate. A couple of months after the two-year part was up, the owner closed the building. All told, Team Building Systems paid only three months' rent for a tenancy of 27 months and was clear of three years' high-priced obligations. "Houston," affirms King, "is a great place to start a business."
Secret Identitee Merchandising
Los Angeles. Nature of start-up: creating and marketing promotional items for movies, TV, and the music industry. Founded: 1984. Estimated 1991 revenues: $3.6 million. Employees: 15.
"I had to give credit: No credit, no business. There were so many vendors like me that wanted in that customers made me wait. for three years I negotiated continually: 'We'll send a check Friday.' 'I'll call you next Monday.' 'Send us a letter.' Once I had to drop an account; they insisted on paying at 120 days, but we couldn't hold off our vendors that long." -- Marc Sirkin
From his position as a TV-show production manager, Marc Sirkin observed Hollywood's huge appetite for gimmickry. In 1985, at age 25, Sirkin and an associate set up a promotional-products business to feed clever notions to the Tinseltown beast. They would create ideas -- submarine pens to pitch the movie The Hunt for Red October, foam rocks for the song "Like a Rock," T-shirts for "The Simpsons" -- sell their concepts to promotion-minded customers, and coordinate the manufacture and delivery of the finished goods.
At first they labored out of an apartment bedroom. "Eight people would show up at 7 in the morning," Sirkin says, "and by 8, UPS and Federal Express were already ringing the bell." In an elbow-to-elbow setting like that, hiring is difficult. "Credibility is the crux," Sirkin notes. "A prospective employee would come to this tiny apartment, and I'd have to tell him, 'That corner is where you'll be working. If you use the bathroom, everyone will hear you. Your benefits are that you have a plant next to your desk."
In 1986 two do-or-die selling trips to Manhattan led to the company's biggest order yet -- 25,000 jackets at $22 each to promote Arnold Schwarzenegger's role in Raw Deal. The $550,000 commitment was enough to buy the fabric, move into legitimate commercial space in West Hollywood, and hire 45 garment workers to fill it. No sooner did Sirkin do so, however, than the order was canceled. He reminded the buyer that the buyer's good name was etched in solid show-biz faith on the purchase order. Secret Identitee wound up getting a recommitment for 15,000 pieces. "That," says Sirkin with a sigh, "was the closest we came to losing everything."
LaMarca Group Inc.
New York City. Nature of start-up: buying media advertising space. Founded: 1974. Estimated 1991 revenues: $73 million. Employees: 35.
"Big corporations do not like the idea of putting someone into business. They want to deal with companies that look solid and are going to be around. Working out of the basement of your house doesn't fit their image." -- Jim La Marca
How do you react when you see a way to do something better than your employer is doing it? (1) Drop a note in a suggestion box, or (2) leave and start a business that does it your way.
While a media buyer at an established advertising agency in 1975, Jim La Marca opted for choice two. "I had looked on the buying of advertising media as a craft. At the agency, I wasn't allowed to apply the craft properly," he complains. "I was a stepchild, while creative services got all the attention."
Yet for many consumer-product companies, media was a significant budget item, sometimes as much as 30% of gross sales. Indeed, for one client, Richardson-Vicks, the largest vendor cost in manufacturing and marketing its products was for airtime from CBS. The solution? La Marca persuaded Richardson-Vicks (itself a bootstrapped enterprise, started in 1890, when its founder, Lunsford Richardson, concocted a balm called Vicks Magic Croup and Pneumonia Salve, later renamed Vicks VapoRub) to help him start his own business, by promising to save the company some meaningful money if he did.
The client spun off one of its products, Lavoris mouthwash, for a test. The ad agency already had specified what the campaign was going to cost: $700,000. The difference therefore would be documentable; on his own, La Marca promised, he could bring it in at considerably less, or Richardson-Vicks could give Lavoris back to the agency.
The client said to give it a shot. With that, La Marca went out and bought a set of tools of the trade -- a calculator and a telephone -- brought the campaign in at $500,000, and charged Richardson-Vicks a fee based on the savings. "With comparatively little work," La Marca admits, "I took a negligible investment and parlayed it into a base to start a business."
To expand he needed support staff, computerized controls, a waiting area -- in sum, identity. So La Marca struck a deal with another, more affluent firm: give me a desk and make me look as if I belong, and I'll give you a share of the profits as my business grows. "With that association," he says, "I created instant credibility." He now has his own floor-through in Manhattan.
Alpha Products And Bulldog Movers
Atlanta. Nature of start-up: manufacturing plastic visors; transporting household furniture. Founded: 1982. Estimated 1991 revenues: $20 million. Employees: 250.
"There were a lot of vultures who wanted to take us over when the chips were down. We didn't let them. It was physically and mentally hard fighting back from adversity, but you can't give in." -- Jim Scott
At age 20, sitting in a college classroom in Georgia, Jim Scott leaned over to the guy next to him and whispered, "Rich, do you understand any of this stuff?" His friend said no. "Neither do I. Let's get out of here and do something constructive."
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Will "Bill" M. Cushing, an 18-year resident of Orange County, died on July 27, 2013 at Westchester Medical Center in Vallhalla as a result of an accident. He was 28.
The son of Cindy Cushing and William O. Cushing, III, he was born on September 25, 1984 in Oxfordshire, England. He worked as a driver for Med Line Trucking in Middletown. Will married Kelly A. Geoghan on March 18 in 2006.
Will was always there to help someone in need. He cherished his son, Landen and his wife, Kelly. He was a dedicated Dad who was a T-ball coach and a member of Truman Moon's PTO. He enjoyed the outdoors; especially riding his bike, snowboarding, fishing and playing horseshoes. He liked to have the occasional beer, but never a Coors Light and a glass of Jameson's with his friends. He was a caring husband, father, son, brother and friend whose sudden loss leaves many deeply saddened. His memory will be cherished forever.
In addition to his loving wife, Kelly and son, Landen, at home and his parents; William and his wife, Brooke of Cheyenne, WY and Cindy and Tom Ewell of Montgomery, NY; he is survived by his brother, Bob Geer and his wife, Danielle of Bloomingburg; sister, Marisa Cushing of Brandon, SD and nephew, Matthew and nieces: Jade and Hayden and the entire Geoghan and Challacombe families.
In keeping with Will's spirit, please come casually for his visitation, with your white shoes on. Visitation will be held from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. on Wednesday, July 31st, at Applebee-McPhillips Funeral Home, Inc., 130 Highland Avenue, Middletown, NY 10940. A Mass of Christian Burial will celebrated at 10 a.m. on Thursday, August 1st, at Our Lady of Mt. Carmel Church, 90 Euclid Avenue, Middletown, NY 10940. Cremation will be private at Cedar Hill Crematory in Middle Hope.
In lieu of flowers, the family has asked for donations to be sent to either Middletown Little League or in trust for the care of his son, Landen Cushing, 54 Mountain Avenue, Middletown, NY 10940.
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Fourteen mini-grants totaling $6,200 were approved by members of the Morenci Education Foundation board.
The major source of funding for the grants comes through an annual golf tournament sponsored by the foundation.
Elementary School
• The most expensive items among this years requests are a pair of audio enhancement systems for Teresa Barrett's second grade school classroom and John Craig's first grade classroom.
The $1,288 units broadcast the teacher's voice through four ceiling speakers. A microphone is also available for students to use in presentations.
• Library aide Lisa Acuña requested $508 for an oval reading rug.
• Kindergarten teacher Janet Rollins requested $270 for a writing/reading center with an easel and storage area.
• Second grade teacher Robin Borton requested $179 for a listening center that includes a CD/cassette player with six headphones.
• Kindergarten teacher Brigell Bovee-Vernier requested $205 for a literacy station.
• First grade teacher Elizabeth Jarrell requested $507 for a literacy station for use with the DIBELS reading intervention program.
• Art teacher Heidi Drake requested $111 for fourth grade students to study the cultural and historical facets of mummification and funerary items.
Middle School
• Sally Kruger requested $465 on behalf of the library to update the collection of young adult fiction.
• Fifth grade teacher Beth Wright requested $120 to enhance the study of local history by creating a quilt.
• Sixth grade teacher Doug Rupp requested $230 to teach narrative writing by using terra cotta pots resembling Mayan culture.
• Andi Rorick requested $347 for an adventure education trip to Somerset Beach for qualifying sixth grade students. The challenges would build teamwork, trust and communication skills.
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• Art teacher Kym Ries requested $315 tp pay for a traveling Leonardo daVinci exhibit and to purchase related materials.
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Carrboro Aldermen Examine Guidelines for Police Body Cameras
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Carrboro police officers may soon be required to wear cameras on their bodies.
Last year's incidents in Ferguson and New York invigorated conversations across the nation about police misconduct and racial discrimination. Earlier this month the United States Department of Justice issued a damning report on Ferguson police, finding explicit racial bias among officers against African Americans (including racist emails sent by officers).
At Tuesday's Carrboro Board of Aldermen meeting, Member Michelle Johnson said body cameras will not end police racial profiling. But some think body cameras could reduce police misconduct by recording interactions between officers and the public.
Carrboro officials have been discussing police body cameras for the last half year. Carrboro's draft policy sets guidelines for use of cameras and management of the video taken. (more…)


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The UConn Lady Huskies go for broke tonight in the National Championship game. Win and they're immortal—lose and they're the biggest chumps of all time.
Not that there's much danger of the latter outcome happening. Connecticut is 38-0 and not a single one of those wins came by less than 10 points. (Most were by much, much more.) They already beat tonight's opponent, Louisville, twice this season by a combined margin of 67. Geno Auriemma can talk all day about how dangerous that makes them, but no one is buying it. A win tonight by Louisville would be one of the greatest upsets in sports history and I'm pretty sure he'll never let that happen.
By the way, if they do win by double digits, the Huskies would be the first team ever—men's or women's—to beat every opponent on their schedule by at least 10 points. That's some pretty good firepower for the "greatest of all time" arguments.
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Transgender 101: Serving Gender Variant Crime Victims
June 14, 2012 @ 2:00 pm - 3:30 pmFREE
Archived Recording:
[Recorded June 14, 2012]
Quick reference – files mentioned or used during the webinar:
- Trans101 Quiz (pre-webinar)
- Choices and options worksheet (pre-webinar)
- Printable flyer: Givens, Choices, Un-Choices, 5-Keys
- Pronoun conjugation chart
Questions and Answers:
This 23 page Q&A groups questions into the following areas:
- Logistics and information related to FORGE (7 questions)
- Language (6 questions)
- Policy and paperwork (4 questions)
- Best practices (5 questions)
- Statistics and references (9 questions)
- Client issues (5 questions)
- Other professionals (5 questions)
- Other resources (1 questions)
This fast-paced webinar is designed to assist victim service providers in better serving transgender survivors of sexual assault and other forms of violence. Many providers are committed to serving transgender clients, but seek additional information in order to provide more competent and sensitive services. This webinar will primarily focus on basic transgender concepts, but will include references and examples specific to victim service providers. The components covered will include: 1) discussing the diversity under the "transgender umbrella"; 2) exploring social, medical, legal, and other options transgender people may pursue; 3) stimulating thought about which components of a transgender person's life might (or might not be) relevant to the roles crime victim professionals play; and 4) disseminating resources to support transgender crime victims and the professionals who serve them. Pre-webinar worksheets will help guide participants during the webinar. Polls and ample time for questions and answers will help solidify materials learned.
- Describe the "terms paradox" and its relevance to working with transgender victims of crime.
- Identify at least three components of being "transgender" that they do NOT need to ask of a transgender victim in order to properly serve the victim (within their specific professional role)
- Identify at least two questions they need to ask of any transgender victim of crime.
- Be able to articulate at least one way people may respond when they are asked to choose an identity box that doesn't fit them.
Pre-Webinar Worksheets:
Please download and complete these two brief worksheets prior to the webinar.
michael munson is the co-founder and Executive Director of FORGE, an organization focused on improving the lives of transgender individuals by building stronger connections, providing resources, and empowering growth through knowledge. His educational background is in psychology, with an emphasis in trauma. Munson's work on violence against transgender and gender non-conforming individuals is groundbreaking, stressing the intersectionality between complex components of identity, experience, and societal constructs that can both spur violence, as well as catalyze healing for individuals and communities. He is passionate about engaging professionals to embrace these complexities and learn key skills to better serve their clients/constituents.
Loree Cook-Daniels has been training about and working on policy changes to better address the needs of members of the transgender community since 1995. Prior to that, she worked for more than a decade on elder abuse and domestic violence issues. The two came together in 2004, when FORGE founded its Transgender Sexual Violence Project.This project was supported by Grant No. 2011-TA-AX-K121 awarded by the Office on Violence Against Women, U.S. Department of Justice. The opinions, findings, conclusions, and recommendations expressed in this publication/program/exhibition are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Department of Justice, Office on Violence Against Women.


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A whistle-stop journey from the age of the dinosaurs to the present day the well-signposted Swabian Alb Route is around 200 km long and runs across the entire Alb region from Tuttlingen on the Danube to Nördlinger Ries through the caved and castled landscape of the Swabian Albs Geopark. Acclaimed for its fossil sites, the park is an insider tip for amateur geologists.
The Swabian Alb is a striking highland region that rose up out of the Jurassic sea millions of years ago and features a combination of bizarre rock formations and gentle rolling slopes. The Swabian Alb was once one of the most volcanic regions on earth. Millions of years ago, lava hissed towards the sky here.
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Today, this region's hallmarks are its gleaming white rock formations, mighty castles and magnificent palaces of notable dynasties, juniper scrubs where shepherds tend their flocks, delightful dry valleys, crystal-clear springs and subterranean wonderlands of dripstone caves, crater lakes, religious buildings in Romanesque or Gothic style and idyllic villages full of half-timbered houses.
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Few other landscapes in Europe reveal their geological origins so clearly as the Swabian Alb. Legacies of an active geological past and natural phenomena make this enthralling landscape a geopark of endless fascination.
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Rare prehistoric fossils can still be found in the area today or viewed in carefully prepared displays at one of the region's world-class museums. The Swabian Albs Geopark is acclaimed for its fossil sites and if you decide to go on your own fossil hunt in Dottershausen, Holzmaden, Bad Boll or Ohmden, you stand a good chance of finding something. Mineral springs have also welled up from the depths of this landscape since prehistoric times and were a blessing to the people of this region. Whatever the time of year, there is always something new to discover along the Swabian Alb Route.
Length: approximately 200 km
Theme: countryside, culture
Aalen: Limes Museum, visitor mine
Bad Urach: spa resort, waterfalls, Falkenstein and Schiller Caves (Falkensteinerhöhle and Schillerhöhle)
Burladingen: textile city, castle ruins, Salemdinger Chapel
Engstingen: Lichtenstein Castle
Heidenheim: Hellenstein Castle
Lautlingen: Stauffenberg Castle
Nördlingen: the Ries crater, city walls, railway museum
Sonnenbühl: the Bear's Cave and Fog Cave (Bärenhöhle and Nebelhöhle)
Trossingen: music academy, harmonica museum
Tuttlingen: Honberg Castle ruins, museums, Danube sink (Donauversickerung)
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Chaffey, Crafton Hills, and San Bernardino Valley College
The popular Go Smart program will continue for Chaffey, Crafton Hills, and San Bernardino Valley College students this fall, enabling them to enjoy unlimited bus rides on Omnitrans with their student ID cards. Last spring these students voted to fund the program by assessing themselves a small transportation fee each semester as part of their regular student fees.
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The Art Institute of California-Inland Empire is currently participating in the Go Smart pilot program. Instead of ID cards, students at the Institute must obtain a separate pass from the campus store. Passes from previous quarters must also be renewed at the campus store in order to be valid. If you have any questions about the Go Smart program at the Art Institute, visit Student Affairs for more information.
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Attention came swiftly following Speedy Ortiz's 2012 Sports EP on the Boston-centric label Exploding In Sound, and with good reason. Massachusetts-based songwriter/guitarist Sadie Dupuis' knotty, lyrically dense songs were fully realized by her bandmates, with intricate guitar lines crisscrossing over Darl Ferm's fluid bass and Mike Falcone's precisely executed drumming in a way that was simultaneously catchy and jarring. After the success of its 2013 Best New Music-honored debut full-length Major Arcana, the band formalized its assault through a year and a half of relentless touring with bands in whose brainy-slash-brawny legacies it followed—among them Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks, Ex Hex, and The Breeders. In 2014, the band added guitarist Devin McKnight of the Boston-based post-punk group Grass Is Green, whose guitar parts both match and challenge Dupuis'.
Speedy Ortiz's second proper album—Foil Deer represents a leap forward, possessing a lightness that mirrors Dupuis's post-grad school outlook; it also has a deliberate nature to it, one that emanates from extra studio time and more experimentation with the band's essential form. Speedy Ortiz possesses big-tent rock swagger and punk's restless yet intimate spirit in a way that makes the impulses seem identical; while the quartet can still command crowds at festivals like Primavera Sound and Pitchfork Music Festival, they also relish playing Boston's teeming basements alongside the city's next generation of bands. That willingness to push not just forward, but in all directions, makes Speedy Ortiz one of rock's most exciting outfits.


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I liked the fact that the two uninfected people didn't both make it to safety, though I felt bad about it. Esme, after all, is the one character that we actually get to know, and she was very well portrayed. But, hey, that's what the end of the world is all about.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Proof" by David Auburn is being presented in the DeWitt Center studio theatre on Thursday-Saturday, April 16-18, as a student Theatre 490 project.
Curtain time is 8 p.m. on April 16 and 17, and 9 p.m. on April 18. Tickets are $2, and will be available at the door.
"Proof" is filled with family dysfunction, betrayal, love, genius and the threat of insanity. The cast includes senior Maggie McGurn of Traverse City as Catherine; David James, who is adjunct associate professor of English and director of the writing center at Hope, as Robert; sophomore Cassie Niespodziewanski of Oak Brook, Ill., as Claire; and senior Carl Morrison of Pickford as Hal.
Because of adult language in the dialogue, the play is recommended for mature audiences.
Maggie McGurn is the producer, and senior Naomi Pointer of Manistee is the director. Stage manager is freshman Amanda Van Assen of Grand Rapids, and assistant stage manager is senior Jaclynn Cherry of Rochester Hills.
Additional members of the crew are: Lighting designer, senior Pat Feder of Grand Rapids; set designer, 2008 graduate Sarah Watkins of Bloomfield Hills; props designer, senior Katie Terpstra of Zeeland; costume designer, senior Lisa Borton of Hudson; sound designer, junior Jeri Frederickson of Wheaton, Ill.; technical director, junior Leif Nelson of Grand Rapids; master electrician, senior Mike Olson of Holland; wardrobers, junior Meghan McNamee of Clinton and sophomore Christine Worden of Midland; light board operator, freshman Radhajyoti Deitenbeck of Gainesville, Fla.; and sound board operator, sophomore Kady Neal of Seneca Falls, N.Y.
The faculty advisor is John Tammi, professor of theatre.
The production is running in conjunction with the student-coordinated "Fringe Festival" at the college, which is featuring presentations across the arts at Hope from Tuesday, April 14, through Saturday, April 25. More information about the festival may be obtained online at www.hope.edu/academic/theatre.
The DeWitt Center is located at 141 E. 12th St., facing Columbia Avenue at 12th Street. The studio theatre is located on the ground level near the building's south east corner.


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Nunez Replaces Rodriguez in Yankee Lineup
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For the second time this season the New York Yankees are depending on 24-year-old Eduardo Nunez to fill some legendary shoes in their lineup. Nunez has appeared in 51 games this season – mostly as a fill in for Derek Jeter at shortstop where he has 24 starts. In 133 plate appearances this year young middle infielder is hitting .279/.318/.434.
When Jeter returned last week Nunez was sent back to the bench. That moved turned out to be a temporary one when Alex Rodriguez was injured. Rodriguez underwent successful surgery on his knee, but will be out for a reported six weeks. After filling in admirably for Jeter, Nunez will be asked to slide to the hot corner and do the same in Rodriguez's absence.
While Nunez was able to replicate or even outperform Jeter at the plate, he will not do the same with Rodriguez. Although he is on the downside of his career, the 35-year-old third baseman was hitting .295/.366/.485 with 32 extra-base hits in 80 games prior to injury. Nunez presents a downgrade across the board; however, he is still worthy of a pickup in AL-Only formats and deeper mixed leagues as well.
Although he won't produce like Alex Rodriguez, Nunez will still hit in the same talented lineup and in the same offensive environment. Nunez should produce a slash line similar to his career line (.279/.319/.413). That is pretty much a league average hitter with little value. On the other hand, even if he gets on base at the league average pace, he should score runs in bunches when you consider the rest of the weapons in the Yankee lineup even without Rodriguez. Depending on his place in the order, Nunez should also see frequent RBI opportunities and could rack up a few extra-base hits in the Bronx. He is far from a speed demon, but does have more steals (10) than strikeouts (9) on the year.
Even when A-Rod returns, Nunez may be worth stashing on your fantasy bench. With a pair of 30-somethings who have already missed time in Rodriguez and Jeter, Nunez is New York's plan B at several infield spots. Because of his time filling in for Jeter, he also has eligiblity at shortstop as well as 3B. There is no reason to overpay or drop someone to make room for Nunez; however, if he is available on your waiver wire snatch up the free talent as soon as possible.
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The Moon - our neighbour
"If space is an ocean," says ESA's Franco Ongaro, "then the Moon is our nearest island." It is an island that last saw human visitors in December 1972, when the final Apollo mission came home from the Taurus-Littrow highlands. ESA's Aurora Programme might well see people back on lunar soil.
New data from 1990s space missions have made the Moon more attractive than in the Apollo days; there have been strong hints that water might exist in the permanent shadow of deep polar craters. As a resource, lunar water could cut the cost of living dramatically for lunar explorers, since otherwise supplies would have to come all the way from Earth - at a price of anything up to 20 000 Euros per litre. It would also make a lunar 'fuel factory' a real possibility. There is plenty of oxygen bound up in the Moon's rocks, but little or no hydrogen. Even a modest water supply could guarantee an in situ source of cheap rocket propellant.
Lunar water has a strong scientific interest, too. Where does it come from? Cometary impacts are the most likely source. Since comets consist of material left over from the formation of the solar system 4.7 billion years ago, scientists are keen to get their hands on some samples. It would be far easier to pick them up from the lunar surface than to send a spacecraft hundreds of millions of kilometres to a comet rendezvous.
Not that a return to the Moon could really be described as 'easy'. For a start, Europe will have to develop its own soft-landing technologies for the preliminary robot missions. A polar lander would require remote units capable of exploring the sunless depths of likely water-bearing craters, so the project will need very advanced communications. Finally, we will have to test and develop the systems and spacecraft that will carry men and women to the Moon - and support them there.


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Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, Dick Smothers… just a few entertainers who became pretty darn good race car drivers.
Enter Patrick Dempsey.
Dempsey is one of today's top television and film actors and stars in ABC's Grey's Anatomy in addition to popular films such as Can't Buy Me Love, Enchanted, Made of Honor and the upcoming Flypaper and Transformers: Dark of the Moon.
A lead driver and owner of Dempsey Racing, he is in his fourth full season of GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series GT class competition in a Mazda RX-8 GT. He co-drives with teammate and Dempsey Racing business partner Joe Foster, and the two have been racing together for seven years after first meeting when Foster was Dempsey's racing school series instructor.
Dempsey has now set his sights on Le Mans, and the first step is fielding an LMP2 in selected American Le Mans Series races, including the Petit Le Mans on October 20th. His #27 Lola Judd has already showed promising results.
Other actors and celebrities have tried racing but only a select few have succeeded and earned the respect of their peers. Paul Newman had a stellar career, especially here at Road Atlanta where he won several championships in the SCCA runoffs. Smothers, of the famed and controversial Smothers Brothers Show, won twice at Sebring and also had some success in open wheel racing.
McQueen, of course, is legend. The movie "Le Mans" cemented his place in racing history, but McQueen was an accomplished road racing driver and short-track motorcycle racer. His second place finish at the 1970 Sebring 12
Hours is considered one of the greatest drives ever. While his co-driver Peter Revson did most of work, McQueen drove with a cast on his broken ankle, and still managed to nearly pull-off one of the greatest upsets ever, finishing only 22 second behind Mario Andretti's Ferrari.
James Brolin, Bobby Carradine, Gene Hackman, James Garner, Lorenzo Lamas, Craig T. Nelson and Jason Priestley are just a few of many celebrities who have dabbled in racing as a driver or car owner, usually with limited success.
For Dempsey, the upcoming Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda will be another step toward achieving his goal.
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Williams, Betty
Williams, Betty, 1943–, Northern Irish peace activist, b. Belfast. In Aug., 1976, Williams witnessed the death of three children when a car driven by an Irish Republican Army (IRA) terrorist went out of control after being fired on by British troops. She began publicly demonstrating for peace, joining forces with Mairéad Corrigan , the aunt of the slain children, soon after the incident. The two created the Peace People Organization, a movement of Catholics and Protestants dedicated to ending sectarian fighting in Northern Ireland. For their work they were awarded the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize.
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O'Neill has decades of experience making gear for everybody who loves an adventure. And we're just as proud of our collection of girl's beanies as we are of our wetsuits. When we started making winter apparel, we promised that we wouldn't compromise fashion for warmth. Every piece in O'Neill's winter catalogue is built for the slopes and chilly evenings under the stars. Every piece looks stunning and will last even after your girl has outgrown it.
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Counter Strike
Method: : Shuffle a pack of playing cards well, to begin the trick. Holding the pack face down, turn over the top card and place it face up on the table. Think of it as a pile. Starting with its face value, deal face up on top of it as many more playing cards as needed to reach 10.
For instance if it's a 3, deal seven cards on top of it; if it's a 5, deal five cards. Face cards count as 10, so no more cards are needed. An ace counts as 1 and needs nine more cards. Continue making piles as above, keeping them separate, until you have used up all the cards in the deck. If there are not enough cards to complete a final pile, keep that incomplete column in your hand. Now choose at random, any three piles that contain at least four cards each and turn these piles face down. Gather all the remaining cards in any order and add them to the cards (if any) in your hand.
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